Makes Us Quotes

1127 Makes Us quotes by 783 unique authors

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We… — John Cheever
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at… — Vladimir Nabokov
Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring… — David Gemmell
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the… — Chinua Achebe
We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad. — Clive Barker
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier. — Marian Keyes
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war… — Michel de Montaigne
Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars… — Julian Barnes
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings… — Nicholas Sparks
There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves. — Arundhati Roy
Eve: "Was that like a cookie?" Roarke: "Hmmm?" Eve: "You know, have a cookie. You'll feel better. Were you making me feel better?" Roarke: "I… — Nora Roberts
It must be quite difficult, concealing your superior male qualities behind a mask of feigned humility.” Why, Gillian, it’s that very ability that makes us… — Victoria Alexander
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to… — Richard Dawkins
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.… — Jodi Picoult
And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt. — Jodi Picoult
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? — Jacqueline Carey
Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity) — Dave Eggers
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… — Roland Barthes
What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold… — Katie MacAlister
It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor… — Azar Nafisi
What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal. — Haruki Murakami
Love makes us do wicked things. — Keith Donohue

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